Prior to graduate school, I worked on several projects related to early-career research mentorship in academic settings. We found, generally, that mentored career development awards administered by the VA, NIH, and AHRQ led to similar outcomes for awardees in terms of grants, publications, and professional positions. Awardees’ mentorship needs tended to be met by a diverse set of mentors who fulfilled both psychosocial and career mentoring functions.

Finney, J. W., Cronkite, R. C., Amundson, E. O. R, Bi, X, Cucciare, M. A., Finlay, A. K., Halvorson, M. A., Hayashi, K., Macus, S., Owens, D. K., Maisel, N. C., Smith, B., Timko, C., Unger-Hu, K., & Weitlauf, J. C. (2016). Evaluating the productivity of VA, NIH, and AHRQ Health Services Research Career Development Awardees. Academic Medicine, 91(4), 563-569.

Maisel, N. C., Halvorson, M. A.,  Finney, J. W., Bi, X., Hayashi, K., Blonigen, D. M., Weitlauf, J. C., Timko, C., & Cronkite, R. C. (2016). Examining institutional incentives for mentoring in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ early career health services mentoring program. Academic Medicine, 92(4), 521-527.

Halvorson, M. A., Bi X, Maisel NC, Hayashi KP, Weitlauf JC, Cronkite RC, & Finney JW (2015). The changing faces of mentorship: Application of a developmental network framework in a health services research career evelopment program. Clinical and Translational Science, 8, 824–829.

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